Bridge tips BIDDING

[42]

Hi!

Please tell us your favourite bridge tip about bidding here and perhaps explain it in details there:

http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?sho...t=0entry94736

[TheoKole]

Never assume that partner will have the "Magic Hand" that produces your Grand or Small Slam, He won't have it.

 

Theo

[Gerben42]

When you preempt, after that forever hold your peace.

[badderzboy]

My favourite bit of advice was if you have shown everything you have don;t show it again partner isn;t deaf!

 

Steve

[Chamaco]

In-quick, out quick

[Chamaco]

The 9th trump is often worth 1.5 trick (Mike Lawrence)

 

(that's why it's very important to discriminate 3 card raises from 4 card raises)

[Free]

In doubt after a preempt, pass in second seat but bid in 4th seat.

[Guest Jlall]

Bid what's in front of your face. This is almost always the best policy as opposed to masterminding. If you bid your hand and partner bids their hand, you will generally find the best contract.

[Winstonm]

A hand is not worth a slam try unless you can visualize the perfect minimum hand partner may hold for his bidding and that hand makes slam a laydown.

 

Winston

[Guest Jlall]

When it comes time to commit to (IE bid blackwood or signoff, bid game or pass an invite) start constructing hands for partner. Do a mental simulation of a bad min, a good min, a bad max, a good max, and 2 "average" hands. Spread out the values appropriately. This method has worked well for me.

[Al_U_Card]

Always remember to use the bid that best describes your hand AS FAR AS PARTNER IS CONCERNED not necessarily the best bid to describe your hand.

[EricK]

Try to do your thinking in advance. When you make a bid decide what you are going to do over the most common replies from partner and spot any problems that may arise. Not only will you avoid giving UI to partner, but you will also make it harder for opponents to know what problems you have with the hand.

 

eg When opening 1NT, decide in advance whether you will accept a 2NT invitation. If you hesitate at your second turn, opponents will have a much better idea of your hand whether you bid on or pass.

 

eg you have a 5044 hand and partner opens 1♥. You will obviously respond 1♠, but you should have decided in advance what you are going to do if partner rebids 2♥. If you pass in tempo on a hand just short of invitational values maybe you will get a balance from opponents and a juicy penalty.

 

Eric

[cherdano]

When you have to make a misdescriptive bid, choose the cheapest one available.

@ mikeh, Bridge Base Forums :rolleyes:

[awm]

Support with support.

 

Bid your suits.

 

(amazing in how many ways forcing NT violates these)

[hrothgar]

If you bid your hand and partner bids their hand, you will generally find the best contract.

In other words, don't let the opponents's bid their hands

[luke warm]

Never assume that partner will have the "Magic Hand" that produces your Grand or Small Slam, He won't have it.

 

Theo

maybe... but rubens and others say, give partner the perfect minimum when contemplating game/slam

 

edit: oops, winstonm already said it :lol:

Edited October 6, 2005 by luke warm

[Fluffy]

Do not ask when you can describe

 

Do not decide when you can describe.

 

Do not do anything else when you can describe actually. When good describing bid is a vaible just use it.

 

I cant count the numebr of times I've seen people making cue bids to show their strenght hoping for partner to bid the suit they have, then blame him for not guessing what he was holding. Just bid what you have. Also applies for making take out doubles with your own suit. Just bid it! :).

[G_R__E_G]

From one of Fred's DOTW (wording approximate):

 

"I prefer to look for reasons to bid rather than excuses to pass."

[Double !]

DON'T BID THE SAME VALUES TWICE (or thrice, etc.).

 

DHL

[cherdano]

If partner has bid under pressure, try to leave him some room instead of assuming he has the perfect hand for his bid.

 

Arend

[1eyedjack]

Agree a default algorithm for the meaning of doubles. More points are won and lost through misinterpreting whether a double is orientated for takeout v penalty than in any other area of the game, IMO, including whether 4NT is Blackwood or quant. If the algorithm gives rise to occasional situations where the definition is absurd, it will more than pay for itself in lack of misunderstandings.

[mycroft]

If you have a choice of calls, and one choice limits your hand, make that one. Do what you can, in fact, to limit your hand as soon as reasonable.

 

When you've limited your hand, partner is Captain. Don't overrule him unless it's blindingly obvious.

 

Confusing bids are forcing (or CBF under game, to play above).

 

If you psych, and it doesn't work, it's your fault. No matter how dense partner was, no matter how much of a hash he made of the rest of the auction and the play, it's 100% your fault. Of course, if it works, you get 50% of the credit!

 

If at all possible, don't torture partner. The more he has to think to work out what you're doing on this hand, the less he is going to be able to think about the next 20.

 

Michael.

[P_Marlowe]

Since I mentioned it in another thread:

 

Be prepared to get robbed, and accept it, if the cards

dont allow you to fight back.

 

From S.J. Simon

"It is a well known fact that the Poker player who is never bluffed

is a losing player.

So is the bridge player who is never psyched."

 

Chapter "They can'f Fool Me!" from "Why you loose at Bridge"

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

[Al_U_Card]

Whenever pass is a legitimate alternative to bidding, PASS!

[cherdano]

"The best biddint tool I know (...) is to visualize a typical minimum hand for my own previous bidding and compare the actual hand with that."

Danny Kleinman (Bridge World 6/2005, p. 27).